In 1898, Arizona became the firstin the nation to sign upfor a “cowboy cavalry” for the Spanish-American War. Prescott, which had about 2,000 residents then, saw 1,000 willing volunteers—the same kind of response came from the booming mining towns of Jerome and Bisbee. These men became the “1st United States Volunteer Cavalry,” ledby Lt. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, who renamed them his “Rough Riders.”
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